Imaam Ibn katheer (rahimahullaah) said: ”He described them with strength, harshness and tyranny. And when you seize, you seize as tyrants without having any pity.” [Ref 1]

Imaam as-Saa’di (rahimahullaah) said: ”And when you seize’’ the creation [i.e. your opponents], you seize as tyrants’’ by killing, hitting and seizing wealth. Indeed, Allaah granted them great strength and it was incumbent upon them to utilise their strength in obedience to Allaah; but instead they were boastful and arrogant. And they said: ‘’Who is mightier than us in strength?’’ and they utilised their strength in disobedience to Allaah, futility and foolishness. Therefore, their Prophet [Hud] forbade them from that. [Ref 2]

Imaam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz [rahimahullaah] stated about the statement of Allaah: [وَإِذَا بَطَشْتُمْ بَطَشْتُمْ جَبَّارِينَ – And when you seize, you seize as tyrants?] [26:130]

This is a rebuke against Aad-the people of Hud [alayhis-salaam]. Allaah rebuked them and that they are oppressors who strike people without right. They oppress people by way of striking, killing and seizing wealth by force. This is a rebuke against them and a blameworthy trait of theirs. This [behaviour of theirs] is not permissible. This [i.e. this statement of Allaah] is a rebuke against Aad and a blameworthy affair for which Allaah sent a devastating barren wind against them. They used to oppress the people and transgressed against them. [Ref 3]